BILL NUMBER: SB 464	CHAPTERED  06/01/00

	CHAPTER   28
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 1, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   MAY 31, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   MAY 24, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JANUARY 3, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Appropriations (Senators Johnston
(Chair), Alpert, Bowen, Escutia, Karnette, McPherson, Perata, and
Vasconcellos)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Ortiz)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 1999

   An act relating to the payment of claims against the State of
California, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 464, Committee on Appropriations.  Claims against the state:
appropriation.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Control to report to the
Legislature when there is no sufficient appropriation available for
the payment of a claim against the state allowed by the board.
   This bill would appropriate, without regard to fiscal year,
$18,500,000, plus an interest amount ascertained as specified, from
the General Fund to the Attorney General for allocation with respect
to the settlement of 2 specified superior court cases.
  The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  (a) The sum of eighteen million five hundred thousand
dollars ($18,500,000) is hereby appropriated, without regard to
fiscal year, from the General Fund to the Attorney General for
allocation as follows:
   (1)  Seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars ($17,500,000)
to pay judgments and settlement claims in the case of Akins, et al.
v. State of California, et al. (Superior Court, County of Sacramento,
Case No. CV 345772), as stipulated in the settlement.
   (2) One million dollars ($1,000,000) to pay judgments and
settlement claims in the case of Antonelli, et al. v. State of
California, et al. (Superior Court, County of Sacramento, Case No.
97AS06716), as stipulated in the settlement.
   (b) An amount ascertained by the Attorney General to be sufficient
to pay interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum accruing on the
amounts specified in subdivision (a) that are not received by the
plaintiffs in the respective cases on or before April 15, 2000, as
stipulated in the settlements, is also hereby appropriated, without
regard to fiscal year, from the General Fund to the Attorney General
to pay that interest.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to pay claims against the state and end hardship to
claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary for this act to
take effect immediately.
